Quotes about coat
A collection of quotes on the topic of coat, likeness, use, man.
Quotes about coat

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"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)

“Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat.”
The lost Leader, i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

in a letter from Etretat to Alice Hoschedé, 1884; as quoted in: Howard F. Isham (2004) Image of the Sea: Oceanic Consciousness in the Romantic Century. p. 337
1870 - 1890

Boisgeloup, winter 1934
As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008
Quotes, 1930's, "Conversations avec Picasso," 1934–35

Quote from Boudin's letter in 1894; as cited in 'Figures on the Beach in Trouville, 1869', by Anne-Marie Bergeret-Gourbin https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/boudin-eugene/figures-beach-trouville, Museo Thyssen
Eighty percent of Boudin's beach scenes are painted on wood panels; in small formats, c. 30 x 45 cm
1880s - 1890s

Song You should see me dance the Polka This song was performed and played a roll in the 1941 movie, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in a scene that took place in an English music hall. The movie starred Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, and Lana Turner; directed by Victor Fleming.

Part I, Chapter 2, Strategy, p. 34
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)

Letter to Woodburn Harris (25 February-1 March 1929), in Selected Letters II, 1925-1929 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 288-289
Non-Fiction, Letters
Context: About my own attitude toward ethics—I thought I made it plain that I object only to (a) grotesquely disproportionate indignations and enthusiasms, (b) illogical extremes involving a reductio ad absurdum, and (c) the nonsensical notion that "right" and "wrong" involve any principles more mystical and universal than those of immediate expedience (with the individual's own comfort as a criterion) on the other hand. I believe I was careful to specify that I do not advocate vice and crime, but that on the other hand I have a marked distaste for immoral and unlawful acts which contravene the harmonious traditions and standards of beautiful living developed by a culture during its long history. This, however, is not ethics but aesthetics—a distinction which you are almost alone in considering negligible. … So far as I am concerned—I am an aesthete devoted to harmony, and to the extraction of the maximum possible pleasure from life. I find by experience that my chief pleasure is in symbolic identification with the landscape and tradition-stream to which I belong—hence I follow the ancient, simple New England ways of living, and observe the principles of honour expected of a descendant of English gentlemen. It is pride and beauty-sense, plus the automatic instincts of generations trained in certain conduct-patterns, which determine my conduct from day to day. But this is not ethics, because the same compulsions and preferences apply, with me, to things wholly outside the ethical zone. For example, I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing—it is all a matter of harmony and good taste—whereas the ethical or "righteous" man would be horrified by dishonesty yet tolerant of course personal ways. If I were farming in your district I certainly would assist my neighbours—both as a means of promoting my standing in the community, and because it is good taste to be generous and accommodating. Likewise with the matter of treating the pupils in a school class. But this would not be through any sense of inner compulsion based on principles dissociated from my personal welfare and from the principle of beauty. It would be for the same reason that I would not dress eccentrically or use vulgar language. Pure aesthetics, aside from the personal-benefit element; and concerned with emotions of pleasure versus disgust rather than of approval versus indignation.

“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth”
Speech in Rutland, Vermont (28 August 1891) as reported in The New York Times (29 August 1891), p. 5 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D01E0DD1339E033A2575AC2A96E9C94609ED7CF
Context: I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

1860s, Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)
Context: It might seem at first thought to be of little difference whether the present movement at the South be called "secession" or "rebellion." The movers, however, well understand the difference. At the beginning they knew they could never raise their treason to any respectable magnitude by any name which implies violation of law. They knew their people possessed as much of moral sense, as much of devotion to law and order, and as much pride in and reverence for the history and Government of their common country as any other civilized and patriotic people. They knew they could make no advancement directly in the teeth of these strong and noble sentiments. Accordingly, they commenced by an insidious debauching of the public mind. They invented an ingenious sophism, which, if conceded, was followed by perfectly logical steps through all the incidents to the complete destruction of the Union. The sophism itself is that any State of the Union may consistently with the National Constitution, and therefore lawfully and peacefully, withdraw from the Union without the consent of the Union or of any other State. The little disguise that the supposed right is to be exercised only for just cause, themselves to be the sole judge of its justice, is too thin to merit any notice. With rebellion thus sugar coated they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than thirty years, and until at length they have brought many good men to a willingness to take up arms against the Government the day after some assemblage of men have enacted the farcical pretense of taking their State out of the Union who could have been brought to no such thing the day before.

“I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat”
A Coat http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1393/
Responsibilities (1914)
Context: I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eyes
As though they’d wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there’s more enterprise
In walking naked.
Word Warrior Woes
“I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar”
Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

“Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.”
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

The Sign (May 1938) This has been misquoted as: The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
Source: A Fine Balance

Source: Behold, Here's Poison
Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began

Source: Telling Secrets (1991)
Source: Boys "R" Us
Source: Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

“perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat”
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: I am no prophet — and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.

“Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.”
Source: Invincible
Source: The Deception of the Emerald Ring

“You’ve got on a white coat. (Ephani)
Awesome cognitive powers you have there. (Alexion)”
Source: Sins of the Night

The Dresden Files short stories, Backup
Context: Thomas Raith: Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-good-ness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a.44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences-and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being.

“I'll let you and Zia have some quality time," she told me. "Just the two of you and your coat.”
Source: The Red Pyramid
Unpublished memoir Computer Connections, on the prevalence of BASIC in programming education; quoted in a eulogy http://www2.gol.com/users/joewein/eulogy.htm delivered by Tom Rolander

On the occasion of the Noble Prize award presented to him in 1930 by King Gustova in Stokholm Raman observed Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman:A Legend of Modern Indian Science, 22 November 2013, Official Government of India's website Vigyan Prasar http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/cvraman/raman1.htm,
4 quotes from: 'The Color in my Painting'
Homage to the square' (1964)

“Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.”
Ask the Parrot (2006), using the pseudonym Richard Stark

Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)

Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 40

In Wonder and Skepticism, Skeptical Enquirer (Jan-Feb 1995), 19, No. 1.
Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 26, p. 201

The Furniture of a Woman's Mind (1727)

The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 6
Conservatism Turned Upside Down: Sam Tanenhaus' Critique of Conservative Reason (2009)
February “DISGRACE”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)

As a CCF member taking issue with the federal Liberal Party. Cite libre (April 1963)
"To Whom It May Concern", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991).

Vancouver Sun http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=15a746f1-2e8b-40d4-8185-0bd221d2a442 (October 15, 2008)

"Being a Man" (1983), from Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries, 1964-84 (Houghton Mifflin, 1986, , 384 pages), p. 309.

Driver: No, just washed it, gonna hang it up to dry (dumbass). Here's your sign.
Here's Your Sign, "Here's <i>MY</i> Sign..."

"And the City Stood in Its Brightness" (1963), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Peter Dale Scott
Bobo's Metamorphosis (1965)

“I will not coat my words in lumps of sugar
I will serve them to our people with the bitter quinine.”
"Manifeston On Ars Poetica," lines 20-21.
Visions and Reflections (1972)

General Thomas Graham, p. 234
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Fury (2006)
“Human nature: vindictiveness lightly coated with dishonesty.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)